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|image=[[File:Tatsumi Kimishima.png|200px]] | |image=[[File:Tatsumi Kimishima.png|200px]] | ||
|born=April 21, 1950 ( | |born=April 21, 1950 (age {{age|April 21, 1950}}) | ||
|role= | |role=President of [[Nintendo]] of America (January 8, 2002 - May 25, 2006) <br> President of Nintendo (September 16, 2015 - June 28, 2018) <br> Managing Director and Executive Advisor at Nintendo (present) | ||
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'''Tatsumi Kimishima''' (君島 達己) was the fifth president of [[Nintendo]], being appointed to presidency in September 2015 after [[Satoru Iwata]]'s death in office in July 2015.<ref name ="Wii U">Hussain, Tamoor [http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendos-new-president-warned-wii-u-was-too-simil/1100-6430584/ Nintendo's New President Warned Wii U Was Too Similar to Wii]. (September 15, 2015) ''Gamespot.'' Retrieved September 16, 2015.</ref> Before his role as president of Nintendo, he was [[bulbapedia:The Pokémon Company International|Pokémon USA]]'s Chief Financial advisor and CEO of Nintendo of America from 2002 to 2006, as well as a managing director at Nintendo, at the human resources division. Kimishima has also worked for 27 years at the Sanwa Bank of Japan, prior to working for Nintendo. | '''{{wp|Tatsumi Kimishima}}''' (君島 達己) was the fifth president of [[Nintendo]], being appointed to presidency in September 2015 after [[Satoru Iwata]]'s death in office in July 2015.<ref name ="Wii U">Hussain, Tamoor [http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendos-new-president-warned-wii-u-was-too-simil/1100-6430584/ Nintendo's New President Warned Wii U Was Too Similar to Wii]. (September 15, 2015) ''Gamespot.'' Retrieved September 16, 2015.</ref> Before his role as president of Nintendo, he was [[bulbapedia:The Pokémon Company International|Pokémon USA]]'s Chief Financial advisor and CEO of Nintendo of America from 2002 to 2006, as well as a managing director at Nintendo, at the human resources division. Kimishima has also worked for 27 years at the Sanwa Bank of Japan, prior to working for Nintendo. | ||
According to the Japanese newspaper Nikkei, Kimishima had predicted that the [[Wii U]] console would not be successful, primarily because it was too similar to the [[Wii]]<ref name ="Wii U">Hussain, Tamoor [http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendos-new-president-warned-wii-u-was-too-simil/1100-6430584/ Nintendo's New President Warned Wii U Was Too Similar to Wii]. (September 15, 2015) ''Gamespot.'' Retrieved September 16, 2015.</ref> | According to the Japanese newspaper ''Nikkei'', Kimishima had predicted that the [[Wii U]] console would not be successful, primarily because it was too similar to the [[Wii]];<ref name ="Wii U">Hussain, Tamoor [http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendos-new-president-warned-wii-u-was-too-simil/1100-6430584/ Nintendo's New President Warned Wii U Was Too Similar to Wii]. (September 15, 2015) ''Gamespot.'' Retrieved September 16, 2015.</ref> however, he denied that in an investor meeting.<ref>http://www.reinodocogumelo.com/2016/07/kimishima-assume-responsabilidade-por.html</ref> He had plans to continue in Iwata's direction and was focused on Nintendo's efforts to enter the mobile market.<ref name ="Wii U">Hussain, Tamoor [http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendos-new-president-warned-wii-u-was-too-simil/1100-6430584/ Nintendo's New President Warned Wii U Was Too Similar to Wii]. (September 15, 2015) ''Gamespot.'' Retrieved September 16, 2015.</ref> | ||
Kimishima stepped down as president on June 28, 2018, succeeded by [[Shuntaro Furukawa]]. Kimishima served the shortest term of any president of the company, having been president for just under three years.<ref name ="Kimishima">[https://nintendoeverything.com/kimishima-on-decision-to-step-down-as-nintendo-president-furukawas-goals-many-unannounced-switch-games/ Tatsumi Kimishima retiring as president of Nintendo, Shuntaro Furukawa taking over] (June 28, 2018) ''NintendoEverything.'' Retrieved June 28, 2018.</ref> | |||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
Tatsumi.png|Tatsumi Kimishima in front of a [[Nintendo GameCube]] poster | Tatsumi.png|Tatsumi Kimishima in front of a [[Nintendo GameCube]] poster | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
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